I can't decide whether to be sad about this, or thrilled that this means that maybe by the time my baby boy is old enough to develop that Elmo obsession that kids seem to get these days, the annoying little creature won't be around any more.

To be on the defensive, as a scouting family. My concern isn't about gay adults, because there are plenty of married men with children who can harm children. My concern has to do young boys dealing with their own attractions as they go through puberty.

We wouldn't allow co-ed camping in tents with a bunch 13 year olds. So if a young man happens to be gay, I guess it would have to be a DADT situation.

Now that the election is out of the way and Big bird is safe from the evil republicans desire to destroy all muppets, can some liberal who had a problem with saying we should cut PBS explain why we are still funding it? PBS may need to have been funded back when there was no cable, bit now we have channels for British programming, channels for nature programming, kids channels what have. And Sesame Street is a multimillion dollar operation, and govt ony provides about 5% of its budget. Meaning, it doesn't need govt to remain ENORMOUSLY profitable.are you saying that absent funding PBS the market somehow couldn't find a place for Sesame Street anywhere!? not on Nickelodeon! Or any of the other channels that cater to kids? He'll, why couldn't cable create muppet tv? give them there own channel which is 24 hours of Sesame Street.

Tere is literally no reason why PBS still needs funding. Besides, don't they have their pledge drives? Let people who want Sesame Street put their money where their mouth is?

But we're talking about continuing to fund something that was only really necessary before cable tv (meaning 25-30 years ago). And the world is such that even cable tv is getting long in the tooth.

Democrats,start being the party of progress and get out of the 70's. we're broke. We don't need to fund PBS anymore.

When Pee Wee Herman was caught masturbating in a porn theater, he lost his Saturday morning show. When a PBS puppeteer gets caught sexing up a person who was, by the perp's admission, at least 18, and may have been as young as 16, well that's his personal business.From my own perspective, I'd like to keep out out of children's programming the kind of people who would act on any sexual attraction (ie, gay or straight) with people who are 20 years their junior.